114 Years Ago:
Checotah Enquirer • Friday, April 16, 1909
ODD FELLOWS HERE
Tuesday was Odd Fellows day in Checotah.
The weather was delightful and everyone turned out to help entertain the visitors.
The Grand Lodge is in session in Muskogee, and among other things a visit to the Orphan home in the city was arranged.
At Opera House Monday Night
The Bohemian Club of Muskogee played “Lady Windermere’s Fan” to a full house at the Hinton theatre last night.
An Important Session
The city board of trustees met in an adjourned session Saturday night with all members present.
D. J. Boone was elected city engineer for the city to oversee the construction of concrete sidewalks.
100 Years Ago McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, April 5, 1923
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN
A veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, George Meadows, 93, reads and writes without the aid of spectacles.
Meadows is one of the two Mexican war veterans living in Oklahoma who are on the federal pension rolls. There are but 52 living men who fought in that conflict who are government pensioners.
Hitchita Boy Exonerated
Jesse Wright, who shot and killed his father-inlaw, Henry Marsh, a storekeeper at Hitchita last September and who was exonerated a few days later by a Eufaula Justice, was again tried for murder in the district court last week and was set free by a jury after 30 minutes of deliberation.
Arthur Downum Cleared of Murder
A jury trying Arthur Downum, a young resident of Stidham, on a charge of having killed John M. Day at a bridge between Stidham and Pierce Dec. 4 returned a verdict in the District Court in Eufaula Friday morning acquitting Downum. He pleaded self defense.
75 Years Ago McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, March 18, 1948 WALLACE AGAIN LANDS POSITION WITH ALL-STARS Myrtle Wallace, the greatest girl’s basketball player ever to perform on a Checotah team, was named a member of the all-state squad for a third consecutive year at the tournament in Oklahoma City Friday and Saturday.
Miss Wallace, who will wind up her high school career this year, has scored 1,643 points in three years of competition, averaging 22 points per game in the 75 games in which she played.
SORGHUM PLANT TO BE OPERATED BY EARLY FALL The Checotah sorghum plant, financed through the sale of stock to business men, will be operated on a full scale basis by late summer, Norman K. Imes, manager, reported this week.
The plant was erected last summer in the northeast part of the city on the old smelter road. Preliminary runs were made to test the equipment and furnace. Evaporation will be done by natural gas.
The plant will process and sell the crop for the farmers and will enlarge its facilities when the demand increases, Imes said.
The company will make the syrup on shares. The farmer may take home as much of his share as he wishes and the company will sell the remainder for him at the prevailing plant wholesale price. Imes hopes that this plan will eventually bring many dollars from other cities to Checotah farmers.
Asks Citizens Stop Dumping Of Trash
Dumping of trash on the road leading to the old smelter grounds northeast of the city is creating a nuisance to traffic and a hazard to health, Mayor Henry Wells said this week.
The city is building a new road from the section line to the dump and the mayor asks that the citizens dispose of their trash properly in the future.
50 Years Ago McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, March 22, 1973
Trio Wins Trip To Washington John Neumeyer, Council Hill, Candy Turner, Eufaula, and Amy Park, Checotah, will represent McIntosh County at the National 4-H Citizenship Workshop in Washington D.C. this summer.
Revenue Fund $43,740 In City
The city of Checotah, which has received $43,740 in federal revenue sharing funds during the past six months, has spent about 75 percent of its new revenue on local projects, it was revealed at the meeting of the city council Monday night.
Former City School Superintendent Dies J.D. Dunlap, 77, superintendent of Checotah schools in the early 1930s, died at General Hospital in Muskogee Tuesday.
Born Feb. 18, 1896 in Red Oak, Dunlap came to Muskogee in 1955 from Oklahoma City and retired from the Veterans Administration in 1964.
25 years ago McIntosh County Democrat Thursday, March 19, 1998
Oklahoma’s First Lady To Visit March 23 Cathy Keating, Oklahoma’s First Lady, will visit Checotah on Monday March 23 as part of her tour of 11 Main Street towns across Oklahoma.
Soap Plagues City’s Sewer System
“We have a problem with someone dumping soap in large amounts in the sewer system and have not been able to determine where it is coming from,” Checotah West Treatment Plant Operator Danny Hale said.
Hale points out that should the system get too much soap, it could ruin the chemicals needed to treat the waste generated by Checotah and processed by the Waste Treatment Plant.
Checotah Education Association Accepts 199798 Salary Schedule The Checotah Education Association members accepted the salary schedule offered by the Checotah Board of Education for the 1997-98 school year, according to a letter signed by CEA Negotiation Team Chairperson Cindy Updyke.
The salary schedule for Checotah certified personnel range from $24,060 for a first year teacher with a bachelor’s degree to $37,030 for a teacher with a doctorate with 25 or more years experience.
